Wednesday, February 6

Brown Butter Rice Krispies Treats

A grown-up spin on the kid-favorite Rice Krispies treats

I’ve chronicled my interesting diet as a child before – how I
was picky (or a “purist” as I like to describe it), how I ate vegetable sushi
and a whole pint of sliced strawberries for school lunches, and mostly how I
managed to miss out on a lot of classic kid-favorite foods. It wasn’t really
until college that I started tasting some of these kids' menu favorites and
started trying to make them at home, which is why it shouldn’t be too
surprising that last weekend was the first time I’ve ever made rice krispies
treats. I’d eaten a few at parties growing up, but since my mom never made them
they were always sort of a mystery to me. Luckily, a recipe in Smitten Kitchen
caught my eye and now I can sing the praises of the easiest ever dessert, a
real crowd-pleaser that can be made in minutes. The brown butter and salt adds
a wonderfully nuttiness and complexity to the lighter-than-air treats and I
like to amp up the amount of marshmallow so they’re extra sticky.